Iona Service of Healing~

The Abbey in the evening.

The Service of Healing at the Abbey is one of my favorites. During the week visitors are invited to write healing requests and place them in a box in the Quiet Corner. At the service the names are read, slowly, deliberately, in categories of need. Those attending the service can either come up and kneel for the laying on of hands for themselves or for people they know, or they can join in the laying on of hands. 

     Here is the prayer, said again and again at the service. I’ve posted it before and written about it; it is definitely one of my favorites.


Spirit of the living God present with us now,
Enter you, body, mind and spirit,
And heal you of all that harms you,
In Jesus’ name, Amen
                                    Iona Worship

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